COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“LLOYDS OF LONDON.’ Tonight will see the commencement of the popular weekly family season and the fare offered is of an outstanding nature. Historical fact deftly blended with fiction, together with an exceptional cast and faultless production, make “Lloyd’s of London” one of the outstanding films of recent years. The most notable personality in the cast is Tyrone Power. Of the beauty and talent of Madeleine Carroll, wh’o plays opposite him, little need be said. Outstanding characterisations are given by George Sanders as the foppish, insufferable Lord Stacey, and C. Aubrey Smith as the bluff and hearty old Marquis of Queensbury. The first part of the film, devoted to the childhood of Jonathan Blake and Horatio Nelson, provides many delightful scenes, in which Freddie Bartholomew and Douglas Scott are at their best. In addition to those already mentioned, Sir Guy Standing and other famous players are featured. It is doubtful if a greater spectacle was ever brought to the screen or a historical episode ever transformed into a moving entertainment than in this truly magnificent 20th Century-Fox production Slim Summerville has just acquired what may become a perpetual gasp from the fastest ride of his life. The Twentieth Century-Fox comedian, featured in “Off to the Races,” fourth in the hilarious Jones Family series at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow has raced at 300 miles an hour in airplanes and zipped around a race track at 150 miles an hour in an automobile, but not until he sat in a sulky did he realise what speed really meant. The script of this latest adventure of America’s typical family required Slim to drive a trotter in a sulky race. Slim got off to a beautiful start, but his horse wasn’t one to let anything outspeod her. She spurted ahead, trying to pass the camera truck. The faster the truck travelled, the faster the horse raced. Finally, at 40 miles an hour, the cameramen were able to keep sufficiently ahead. But before Slim could get his horse stopped, the truck had to pull off the track and let her “win” the race, to Slim’s great relief.